The story behind the statue.. do you know it?

Don't know about it, so I may be wrong, but I suspect its construction and installation involved some EU grant**.


**Which means it has no real reason or purpose for being there.

Cynical.. where would we be without art in our cities?

Robski wrote:

Cynical..

Of the EU grant culture. Not of art.

klsallee wrote:

Robski wrote:

Cynical..

Of the EU grant culture. Not of art.

I concur.

The statue name is:" soaring bronze siren"
the artist is Istvan Madarassy and the statue was built in the year of 1990, and it is just a statue nothing more.

Thankyou that's very helpful. Does "soaring bronze siren" translate as "szárnyaló bronz sziréna" is that what the piece is called in Hungarian? I can look at the work of Istvan Madarassy now and see if I can find more.
It is strange that it doesn't hold any significance to that location.. it is such a melancholy piece, perhaps just a reflection of the Hungarian psyche in general.
Thanks again.

No

Thankyou that's very helpful. Does "soaring bronze siren" translate as "szárnyaló bronz sziréna..."

No its name is in Hungarian lebegő bronzszirén

http://www.kozterkep.hu/~/8793/

Thanks.. good info.

I must admit, that I never realized this sculpture (kinda left the country exactly when they built that hotel) and found nothing more about it online.
I like these kind of artwork in budapest though - whether paid by EU money or not!!
So, as to add to the value of this post, I found a few more here :-)
http://welovebudapest.com/hu/nevezetess … budapesten

fireroller wrote:

So, as to add to the value of this post, I found a few more here :-)
http://welovebudapest.com/hu/nevezetess … budapesten

Flying pig thing is OK but the giant mosquitos....Ewwww.....Yuck!

fluffy2560 wrote:

Flying pig thing is OK but the giant mosquitos....Ewwww.....Yuck!

u-uh, sorry to have to admit, but I looooved them when I was a small kid in the eighties(i think). (My grandparents lived in Kékgolyó u.). The link suggests, they may have to do with the name of the place 'vérmezõ'=blood meadow (was an execution place)
:-D